Simao Paxi-Cato and Yvonne McDermott set the ball rolling with Simao’s stirring keynote speech from 2015 on the links between legal education and access to justice for the disadvantaged. Liz Heffernan, Jennifer Spreng, NLS Visiting Senior Fellow Liz Curran and Jenny Gibbons then provide a fascinating range of insights into those links across four different jurisdictions.

From the technology perspective, Ann Thanaraj considers how law schools can prepare students to work in an increasingly technological environment and Jenny Kemp considers how linguistic corpora can be used to enhance law students’ learning.

Look out for announcements about our next international conference, scheduled for summer 2020. With the REF in our sights, we will be focussing on the different kinds of “impact” legal education and research into it can have.